Vel'Koz with Jax
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Jax
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Vel'Koz Jax Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Jax
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Jax
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Advice to Understand How Jax Will Play
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Vel'Koz Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vel'Koz sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Jax. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jax helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Jax, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Jax helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Jax on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Jax.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Jax on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Jax does a decent job of protecting Vel'Koz in team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Jax?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Jax is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Vel'Koz and Jax that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Jax has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Jax comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Vel'Koz players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vel'Koz and Jax together, you will not be granting your side a lot of cover. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Jax ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Jax during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Vel'Koz and Jax synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Jax than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jax with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.8% win rate overall.
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